Kent

KENT — First Selectman Bruce Adams commented on the budget plan for fiscal year 2018-19 at the regular monthly meeting of the Kent Board of Selectmen on Tuesday, March 6.

“The initial increase in the cost of health care was 19.2 percent, but it is now anticipated to be around 12 percent,” he said. The town currently uses Aetna as its health insurance provider, and is considering switching to a state plan, Connecticut Partnership 2.0, for further cost savings.

Adams also said he was interested in hiring an independent consulting firm to...

Kent

KENT — Bears have generally been a benign presence in the Northwest Corner. But as their numbers increase exponentially, the potential for danger to humans and other animals seems to be increasing as well.
Every few years there seems to be a rumor of a bear ripping a door off a house and coming into the kitchen or attacking a small animal in a backyard or outdoor paddock. Photos sent in for The Lakeville Journal’s Bear Watch column have shown more bears coming right up to back doors and barbecue grills.

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KENT — The Board of Selectmen met for their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 6. The meeting began with a closed-door executive session to discuss the lawsuit being brought against the town by Templeton Farms Apartments. The claim was that their property was over assessed.
Templeton Farm Apartments had participated in a tax abatement program for 40 years in which the state reimbursed them for their property taxes. That program expired in 2016.

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KENT — The 106th annual Kent Firemen’s Ball was held on Saturday, June 10, at the firehouse. This much anticipated soiree attracted more than 500 guests who came to enjoy an evening of fun, food and dancing.
Dressed in their late-spring finest, attendees mingled, laughed and dined on a roast beef dinner prepared by Bill Tobin and his crew. The band Those Guys provided live music.

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KENT — “I don’t have psychic powers, but I know you’re all wondering why I’m dressed like this,” Mathew Duman said to the audience at the Kent Memorial Library on Saturday, June 10. Duman, a photographer and graphic designer, was wearing a safari helmet and vest that said “Gargoyles Tour Guide” on the back.

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KENT — “There are a lot of bears around,” observed Randy O’Rourke. At a recent Kent Lion’s Club meeting, a neighbor told O’Rourke that one of his miniature donkeys had been killed by a bear recently.
Then, on Sunday, May 21, “I saw three bears, a mama and two cubs, crossing Route 7 about two miles south of where I live in Brookwoods, which is across the road from Kent Falls State Park.”

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KENT — The simple act of brewing a cup of coffee, something that we take for granted every day, would have been a laborious and time-consuming task for our Colonial forefathers.
In a Kent Historical Society Sunday Series talk entitled Food of Our Founders held on May 21 at Town Hall, Wilton Historical Society Museum Educator Lola Chen spoke about how the early settlers obtained, prepared and preserved food.

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Not all the events on the weekend of Connecticut Trails Day (Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4) involved hiking. In Kent, on the north campus of the South Kent School, MaryAnn Haverson led an early-morning yoga session overlooking farm fields and Hatch Pond. After stretching and assorted asanas, the participants toured the school’s farm, barns and greenhouses. Overall, more than 200 events were held throughout the state, with many of them in Northwest Corner towns.

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KENT — Sal Lilienthal, owner of the Bicycle Tour Company in Kent, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of his business this year.
Lilienthal has been in the cycling industry for more than 35 years. Before settling in Kent and starting his tour company here, he was employed as a licensed race mechanic at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Lilienthal eventually landed a job with the Motorola American Cycling Team and worked at the Tour de France with Lance Armstrong.

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KENT — Morrison Gallery owner Bill Morrison will soon see his dream of art storage space and a new gallery take shape, literally. Building materials have recently arrived on the empty lot across from the Fife ‘n Drum restaurant where the structures will be located. Construction is slated to begin this summer.
Millerton-based architect John Allee helped Morrison turn his vision into a reality.

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Alex Kearney tells us that he got some great bird photos on Schaghticoke Road in Kent on Tuesday, May 16. But he only sent us one, plus several more from earlier this spring.
He adds, “If people have not been out seeing the many, many different species of birds passing through this area, they should.”

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